[ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again

[Gavin Ford]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +0000, alan c wrote:
> One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video 
> clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now 
> seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or 
> something?
> 
> The particular clip I want is entitled
> 'Rufus' review'
> and is not far down in the main article
> at
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm
> 
> I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok 
>   in the browser, I just want to capture the clip.
> I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached 
> it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11)
> The url of the target clip seems to be
> rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="(C) 
> British Broadcasting Corporation"
> and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc 
> etc) I obtain:
> 
> ==================================
> user1 at my-pc:~$ mplayer -playlist 
> rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="(C) 
> British Broadcasting Corporation"
> and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??)
> Any ideas please?  Tia.


The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in
single quotes like this:

mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title="BBC"&author="BBC"&copyright="(C)British Broadcasting Corporation"'

  -Gav